Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

the-podcast guy recently linked this essay, its old, but i don't think its significantly wrong (despite gpt evangelists) also read weizenbaum, libs, for the other side of the coin

  • Dessa [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    Moreover, we absolutely do have memory. The concept existed before computers and we named the computer's process after that. We have memories, and computers do something that we easily liken to having memories. Computer memory is the metaphor here

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, it's a really odd thing to harp about. Guy's a psychologist, though, and was doing most of his notable work in the 70s and 80s which was closer to the neolithic than it is to modernity. I think this is mostly just "old man yells at clouds" because he's mad that neuroscience lapped psychology a long time ago and can actually produce results.